News for those who pre-ordered signed and/or personalized copies of Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume Four from Uncle Hugo’s.

UPS tells us that five cases of this title will land on our doorstep tomorrow, Wednesday, May 29, sometime before 8 pm.

Steve and I will sign and/or personalize these books as quickly as we can without breaking a leg, or a wrist.

When we have finished signing the books, we will put them on a UPS truck to Minneapolis, so the Uncle can take care of the hard part of this transaction:  charging credit cards, and packing and shipping books.

We are at this point shooting for Friday as the day we will place the five cases of books on the UPS truck.  We would like that; it’s our goal.  But it may come about that the books will not leave us until Monday...

Liaden Universe® Constellation Volume 4 is now available in paper and ebook editions from your favorite bookstore.

If your favorite bookstore happens to be Amazon, please know that they do have both editions for sale, but they are for sale from different catalog pages.

Here are the pertinent links:

Link to the Kindle edition

Link to the paper edition

“Dark Secrets,” a brand-new Liaden Universe® story will appear in Infinite Stars: Dark Frontiers coming from Titan Books in November.  Contributing authors include:  C.J. Cherryh, Brenda Cooper, Tanya Huff, Susan R. Matthews, Seanan McGuire, Jack Campbell — and more!  Edited by Bryan Thomas Schmidt.

Here’s a press release, revealing all the contributing authors.

Link to preorder from BN.

Link to preorder from Amazon.

Just a reminder that! Accepting the Lance, the twenty-second novel in the long-running and much-feted Liaden Universe® created and co-written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, will be published in hardcover and ebook editions*on December 3, 2019.

Uncle Hugo’s SF Bookstore will once again be taking pre-orders for signed and/or personalized copies.  The order page will go live after Labor Day.

We know from the volume of email we’re getting that there’s a lot of pent-up demand for this title.  No, sorry, we cannot “push for an earlier release**,” nor are we open to “selling our draft.”  Waiting is, and patience definitely is.  December will happen soon enough.

However!  We have heard from an early reader of the book and we thought it only fair to share her reaction to it, so here you are:

For those who indulge, the eARC edition of Accepting the Lance, the 22nd Liaden Universe® novel, created and co-written by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller is now available.  eARCs are electronic Advance Reading Copies; they will contain errors of formatting, grammar, and perhaps even spelling.  However!  There will be no major story changes between it and the final book, which will be available in All Its Perfection on December 3.

Here is your link to the eARC edition of Accepting the Lance.

This space is provided as a service to the eARC-reading community.  If you have read the eARC of Accepting the Lance by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, and you want to Talk About It, please do so here.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT READ the eARC AND DO NOT WANT THE STORY SPOILED:

STOP HERE!

Back slowly away.  Do NOT read the comments.

Everybody else — go for it.

The Uncle has spoken, to wit:

People have been asking all year when they will be able to order signed copies of the next Liaden novel by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Accepting the Lance ($25.00, expected early December), and you can get your copy personalized if you order by November 10.  We’ve just arranged to also have signed copies of two Liaden novelettes in trade paperback, Adventures in the Liaden Universe #28: Fortune’s Favor ($8.00, expected by mid-September) and Adventures in the Liaden Universe #29: Shout of Honor ($10.00, expected by mid-September).  These will be signed but not personalized.  If you wish to order all 3 Liaden books, we can either send the trade paperbacks right away (with a $6.00 shipping charge) and the hardcover in December (with another $6...

Here is your link to the eARC edition of ACCEPTING THE LANCE: https://www.baen.com/accepting-the-lance-earc.html

A SPOILER DISCUSSION PAGE has been opened at for those who have read . . .LANCE and want to talk about it...

It’s official: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller will be guests of honor at Albacon 2020.
Sept. 11-13, 2020.